Control from here for engines and for heat-shield

[Martian Emigrant]

Hi.

Once in a while I (Others I am sure) want to build outside of the box and have a ship with engines pointing in a different direction than the main ship itself.

Say a lander that would fit the fairing better if it were backward.

Instead of having two probe cores facing either way how about clicking the engine to tell which way this ship moves?

Reduces the number of parts for one.

"Control from here" on a docking-Port is forward, "Control from here" on an engine or heat shield is the back end.

I have had an escape pod with an engine on the nose and a heat shield on the bottom.

It can be confusing to go progade to de-orbit and then going retrograde to re-enter.

Rendezvous with that pod is a bit backward thinking.

 

ME

[Wjolcz]

Or an option on the pod/probe body that changes its facing, or sth.

Or a surface-attachable probe body. Much less fiddling around than attaching an in-line probe. Just slap one tiny part to the side, rotate and be done with it.

Edited February 4, 2017 by Veeltch